Memoir Writing: Write a Personal Story for a Universal Audience
Giving Yourself Permission to Write
A course by Courtney Maum , Author and Book Coach
About the video: Giving Yourself Permission to Write
Overview
“It is not unusual to feel that you are not entitled or professional enough to tell a certain story. Here you will learn that trying to overcome that thought is a key element of the writing process.”
In this video lesson Courtney Maum addresses the topic: Giving Yourself Permission to Write, which is part of the Domestika online course: Memoir Writing: Write a Personal Story for a Universal Audience. Learn how to write a compelling personal narrative by exploring different literary devices and story structures.
Partial transcription of the video
“Giving Yourself Permission to Write In the last lesson, we looked at really fun ways to generate buzz around our stories. In this our final lesson, we'll be learning the most important thing: giving yourself permission to write. When I talk to people today, whether they're students of mine or just people I'm meeting at a dinner party, when they say that they have an exciting or meaningful story to tell and I ask, "Have you started writing it?" The number one and number two things that people say to me that's keeping them from telling their stories is a lack of confidence, or they ask themse...”
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Course summary for: Memoir Writing: Write a Personal Story for a Universal Audience
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Areas
Creative Writing, Narrative, Non-Fiction Writing, Writing
Courtney Maum
A course by Courtney Maum
American author and book coach Courtney Maum has used stories to make sense of the world since she was a child. She studied comparative literature and French translation at university before going on to work in advertising agencies as a copywriter and corporate namer. She has used her love of storytelling to create compelling backstories for everything from nail polish to electric cars.
Courtney is fascinated with the creative process and has written and published several books with some of the biggest publishing houses and editors in America, including Penguin Random House and The New York Times. She also founded a collaborative retreat for creative professionals and has a regular newsletter, Get Published, Stay Published, in which she shares her tips for staying motivated during the writing process.
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